Collated work sheets



J. A. .WHERRY. COLLATED WORK SHEETS APPLlcATioN FILED Aua.24. v|921'.

Patented Jan. 17, 1922.

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Patented Jan. 17, 1922.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 3 UNITED STATES JOHN A. WHRRY, vOF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

COLLATED WORK SHEETS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 17, 1922.

Application filed August 24, 1921. .Serial No.Y 495,011.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, JOHN A. WHERRY, a citizen of the United States, residing at 5911 Prytania Street, in the city of New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collated Work Sheets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to means for grouping or collating work sheets preparatory to ,their introduction into a typewriting machine and has for its object to provide a simple and effective means for locking together the work sheets and also the carbon or transfer sheets, interposed between the several work sheets, so that the collated or assembled pack may be handled with facility, and may, if desired, be transferred to and from the typewriting machine, or the book or receptacle in which the sheets are kept, intact, either in whole or in part, so that the assembled sheets will be maintained in proper relation to receive the data to be inscribed thereon. The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. l is a face view of a main record sheet, constructed in accordance with the invention.

Fig. 2 is a face view of two work sheets with interposed carbon transfer sheet assembled in accordance with the invention. l

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional elevation of the assembled sheets, the supplementary work sheet and the transfer sheet being broken away.

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 2, showing multiple supplementary sheets and interposed transfer sheets applied to both front and rear faces of the main sheet.

Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional elevation of the device shown in Fig. 4, the supplementary sheets and transfer sheets being broken away in part.

The invention is particularly applicable to the collating of record sheets, such, for example, as ledger sheets and statements, bills and the like, in which a complete record of transactions extending over a relatively long interval of time is made on the primary or ledger sheet, and tlielcorresponding data for fractional portions of the time represented by the ledger or record is inscribed on the supplementary statement or bill sheets, the appllcation of the record being made simultaneously on the several sheets. The inventlon will, therefore, be described as applied to collated ledger sheets and statements or bills, but it is to be understood that it is not limited to this class of record sheets, but 1s of general application.

Referring to Figs. 12 and 3, l indicates a main ledger sheet having the usual headving and spaces for theD reception of such data as is usually inscribed upon a record sheet of this character, and exemplified as: date, items, debits, credits, new balance, and old balance, together with the name and other data concerning the customer or party with whom the account is kept.

Preferably arrangedon each side of the datacolumns is a column of spaced and cons ecutively numbered lines 2, representing line spacing of the typewriter machine by means of which the data is inscribed on the ledger sheet. As a matter of economy and convenience, both sides of the sheet l are printed alike.

Near the top edge of the sheet 1 there is provided two parallel transverse slots 3 and l which are preferably of a length equal to the width of the supplementary sheets, such as the statement or bill sheets employed in conjunction with the ledger sheet.

Associated lwith the primary or ledger sheet l, is a supplementary sheet 5, which is preferably provided with the same order and arrangement of heading and columns and spaces to receive the printed data as the ledger sheet, and is also provided along either side with columns of consecutively numbered lines, 6, corresponding to the columns of numbered lines 2 on sheet l, so that the numbered lines or spaces on sheet l and sheet 5 may be brought into any desired superposed relation on the adjusted sheets for inscribing the records thereon. The upper end of sheet 5 is extended beyond the normal heading, and the extended portion is provided with a Seriesrof lines 7, spaced at intervals equal to the intervals between the lines in columns 2 andV 6 on sheets l and 2 respectively, and, therefore, equal to the line spacing of the typewriter with which the sheets are employed, the lines 7 being numbered consecutively, but in reverse order to the numbering of the lines in columns 2 and 6, aforesaid. The number of spaced lines 7 on the extended end of sheet 5 is substantially the same as the number of lines in the columns 2 and 6, and said lines are adapted to constitute the index markings for folding or creasing the-sheet 5, so

as to bring the fproper record lines or spaces on sheets 2 an 5 into registry, as will be ex lained hereinafter. f

nterposed between the ledger sheet 1 and the statement sheet 5 is a transfer sheet 8 of carbonl paper or the like, which is preferably of the same width as sheet 5, and serves to transfer the original record written on sheet 5 by the typewriter to the proper lines or spaces on sheet 1. In assembling the several sheets as described, the carbon sheet is first locked to the primary sheet or ledger sheet 1, by interlacing the upper end of the carbon sheet through slots 3 and 4, and then folding the carbon sheet 8 back over the face.

of sheet 1 as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3. The supplementary or statement sheet 5 is-then interlocked with the ledger sheet 1, by passing the upper end of said sheet 5 through slot 4, folding the free edge of said sheet flat against the section of the carbon sheet between the slots 3 and 4, and then folding sheet 5 over the front of sheet 1. By this mode of attachment the sheets 2 and 5 are secured together in such relation that they may be readily handled without disturbing the adjusted relation of said sheets but may, nevertheless, be readily separated without disturbing the'interlocked relation of the primary sheet 1 and the carbon sheet 8,

In assembling and interlocking the statement sheet 5 with the ledger sheet 1, it is, of

` course, necessary that the statement sheet be so adjusted with respect to the ledger sheet that the first line to receive a written entry on the statement shall be brought into registry with the line following the last entry on the ledger sheet. For example, assuming that the statement sheet -is to receive the entries for the month of February, and that eight entries had been previously made on the ledger sheet for the month of January, the statement sheet is then creased or folded along the particular line 7 numbered 9, and the upper end of the statement sheet 5 is then interlocked with the ledger. sheet 1 in the manner described, the upper portion of the statement sheet being torn olf, along one of the lines 7, to leave a sufficient portion of the upper end of said sheet 5 to effect the interlock aforesaid.

This adjustment or interlocking of the sheets 1 and 5 will bring line 1 in column 6 of the statement sheet into registry with line 9. of the ledger sheet 1, as indicated in Fig. 2, after which the collated or assembled sheets are placed in the typewriter, and the record of the transactions written on both sheets, the sheets being left in interlocked relation for the period of time covered by the statement sheet, say, for example, the month of February. When the statement sheet has been completed, it is removed and another statement sheet applied to the ledger sheet in the same manner, by folding said statement sheet on a line numbered 7 at the top thereof, and interlocking the other end of said statement sheet with the ledger sheet, in the manner described.

This series of operations may be repeated as often as necessary until the ledger sheet has been completely filled, and, if the latter is printed on both sides, the operations are merely repeated by reversing the interlocking operations and superposing the carbon or transfer sheet andv the new statement sheet on the reverse side of the ledger sheet.

In case it is desired to employ statement or other supplementary record sheets covering different periods of time, or to receive the record of different sets'of transactions or multiple records of the same series of transactions, means are provided for collating a series ofvsupplementary sheets and carbon sheets with the primary sheet, said means comprising a series of parallel slots near the top of the primary sheet, as illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5, in which 10 indicates the primary sheet having a column 11 of consecutively numbered lines or spaces corresponding to the line spacing of the typewriter and provided with a series of parallel transverse slots 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 near its top, which are similarly spaced. As indicated, two supplementary record'sheets 17 and 21 vare applied to the faceof the primary sheet 10 and a single supplementary sheet 23 is applied to the back of sheet 101v with properly arranged transfer sheets 20, 22 and 24, interposed between the successive sheets 17 and 21, 21 and 10, and 10 and 23. Each of the supplementary sheets isprovided with an elongated upper end having consecutively and reversely numbered lines 19 spaced equally with the lines in the column 11 of sheet 10 and with the lines in column 18 on one edge of the supplementary sheet and, therefore, equal to the line spacing of the typewriter.

In assembling the supplementary sheets and interposed carbon sheets in collated relation with the prima-rv sheet, the several carbon and supplementary sheets are interlocked with proper slots in the primary sheet, as shown in Fig. 5, viz: Carbon sheet 22 is interlocked with slots 15 and 16, supplementary sheet 21 is interlocked with slots 14 and 15, carbon sheet 20 with slots 13 and 14, supplementary sheet 17 with slots 12 and 13, and supplementary sheet 23 and carbon sheet 24 are interlocked with slot 12, and thenfolded over the back of the primary sheet 10, so that the transfer surface of sheet 24 is adjacent the face of supplementary sheet 23. The upper edges of the several supplementary sheets 17, 21 and 23, are

folded along appropriate lines 19, to bring the next lines on' the respective supplementary sheets to receive the particular record to be transcribed into registry with the appropriate line on the primary sheet 10. For

example, the first line on sheet 17 is to `re-y plementary sheets into registry with the appropriate lines on the main sheet, the said supplementaryl sheets and interposed transfer sheets being interlocked with the mainsheet as described.

From the foregoing, it will be apparent that the several sheets may be effectively locked together in properly collated relation, which will be maintained without danger of accidental displacement, and in the particular form illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5, it is possible to employ several supplementary sheets to receive the record data either in whole or in part. For example, sheets 17 and 21 may be either duplicate statements or seperate statements covering different periods, while sheet 23 may constitute a bill to receive the record of instant transactions, after which the'said sheet 23 may be readily removed and a new sheet applied in substitution thereof. While the invention is particularly well adapted to the recording of ledger accounts and a simultaneous writing of bills and statements, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to this special fie'ld but is applicable to devices involving sheets, leaves or cards for receiving records of any and all characters, in which duplicates, either in Whole or in part, are desired.

What I claim is:-

1. The combination -of a main work sheet having a slotadjacent to and parallel with one 'transverse edge thereof, vand a supplementary work sheet folded over said transverse edge of the main sheet, withits end interlockcd` within said slot.

" 2. The combination of a main work sheet having slots adjacent to and parallel with one transverse edge thereof, a supplemenvtary work sheet folded over said transverse ed of the main sheet with its end interloc ed Within one of said slots, and an interposed transfer sheet having its end folded over said transverse edge of the main sheet and interlocked within said slots.`

3. The combination of a'main work sheet having a slot adjacent to and parallel with one transverse edge thereof and a column of figures indicating line spaces along one side, and a supplementary work sheet vhaving one end provided with a series of lines numbered in` reverse order to the column of figures aforesaid, said work sheet adapted to be folded on one of said lines and enga-ged at the fold with the'transverse edge of the main sheet and with its free end interlocked Within said slot. Y

4. The combination of a main vvork sheet having a slot ad'acent to and arallel with one transverse ge thereof an a column of figures indicating line spaces along one side, and a supplementary work sheet having one end provided with a series of lines, numbered in reverse order to the column of lfigures aforesaid, and spaced at equal intervals with said fi res, said work sheet adapted to be fol ed on one of said lines and engaged at the fold with the transverse edge ofthe main sheet, and with its free end interlocked within said slot.

5. The combination of a main work sheet having slots .adjacent to and arallel with one transverse edge thereof an a column of figures indicating line spaces along Lone side, a supplemental work sheet having one end provided with a series of lines spaced' at equal intervalsI with said fingers and numbered in reverse order to said columns of figures said work sheet adapted to be folded on one of said linesand engaged at the fold with the transverse ed e of the main sheet andwith its free en interlocked within one of said slots, and an interposed transfer sheet having its end folded over the transverse edge of the main sheet and interlocked with said slots.

6. The combination of a main work sheet having a series of slots adjacent to and parallel with one .transverse edge thereof, supplementary work sheets having extended ends interlocked with certain,l of said slots, and interposed transfer sheets having their ends interlocked with certain of said slots.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

' a JOHN A. WHERRY. 

